Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo-20161125' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/core
Pull perf/core improvements and fixes from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:
New features:
- Improve ARM support in the annotation code, affecting 'perf annotate', 'perf
report' and live annotation in 'perf top' (Kim Phillips)
- Initial support for PowerPC in the annotation code (Ravi Bangoria)
- Skip repetitive scheduler function on the top of the stack in
'perf sched timehist' (Namhyung Kim)
Fixes:
- Fix maps resolution in libbpf (Eric Leblond)
- Get the kernel signature via /proc/version_signature, available on
Ubuntu systems, to make sure BPF proggies works, as the one provided
via 'uname -r' doesn't (Wang Nan)
- Fix segfault in 'perf record' when running with suid and kptr_restrict
is 1 (Wang Nan)
Infrastructure changes:
- Support per-arch instruction tables, kept via a static or dynamic table
(Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
